Background Prior studies suggest that unintended medication discrepancies that represent
errors are common at the time of hospital admission. These errors are particularly worthy of …

Background: Over a quarter of hospital prescribing errors are attributable to incomplete
medication histories being obtained at the time of admission. We undertook a systematic review …

Purpose To systematically review published quality improvement (QI) and patient safety (PS)
curricula for medical students and/or residents to (1) determine educational content and …

Background: Shorter resident duty periods are increasingly mandated to improve patient safety
and physician well-being. However, increases in continuity-related errors may counteract …

Background Application of user-centred design principles to Computerized provider order
entry (CPOE) systems may improve task efficiency, usability or safety, but there is limited …

Importance Syncope can result from a reduction in cardiac output from serious cardiac
conditions, such as arrhythmias or structural heart disease (cardiac syncope), or other causes, …

Background Retrospective record review using trigger tools remains the most widely used
method for measuring adverse events (AEs) to identify targets for improvement and measure …

Background Computerised provider order entry (CPOE) is an important patient safety
intervention that has encountered significant barriers to implementation. The usability of a CPOE …

Personality is the description of an individual’s tendencies when acting or reacting to others.
Clinicians spontaneously form impressions of a patient’s apparent personality yet such …

… At 48 hr postoperatively, fat embolism was suspected, supported by the development of
petechiae on the upper trunk and thrombocytopenia (platelets 98 × 109·L–1). Magnetic resonance …